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Tuesday, May 06, 2014

Tuesday's Overlooked TV: Steven Wright on The Tonight Show

I'm not sure why, but Steven Wright cracks me up more than just about any comic I can think of. This is his first appearance on The Tonight Show. He's so nervous he can barely keep going, but he's still very, very funny, at least to me.

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He's a "joke machine" in the Henny Youngman fashion, but in such a clever, relatively sophisticated and off-center way that he has a vast as well as intense appeal. I've always enjoyed his work. He had a fine episode of the PBS sitcom anthology TRYING TIMES, as well.